kuk hussar regiment "Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn" No. 4

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Badge of the KuK Hussar Regiment No. 4 in 1917

The hussar regiment " Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn " No. 4 was set up as the Austro-Habsburg cavalry association. The unit then existed in the Austro-Hungarian or Joint Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces until it was dissolved in 1918.

When a cavalry ranking was drawn up in 1769, the association was given the name Cavalry Regiment No. 34 .

Status and association membership 1914

VII Army Corps - 1st Cavalry Troop Division - 12th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 71% Magyars - 29% others
Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Gotthard Jańky von Bulcs
Regimental language: Hungarian
Uniform: Light blue Attila with white olives (buttons). The shako cover was madder red.

Lineup

On November 5, 1733, Colonel Nicolaus Graf Hávor received from Emperor Charles VI. a patent at his own expense a hussar - regiment to build. Ultimately, however, he only had to pay for 3 companies ; for the remaining 7 companies, he was promised the reimbursement of advertising money from the Treasury of the War Ministry. Zala County was the advertising district and assembly point . The advertising does not seem to have been carried out very intensively, since in June 1734 only 5 companies were posted.

  • In 1746 five companies from the disbanded Bartolotti Hussar Regiment were taken over.
  • In 1748 a company of the Hussar Regiment Trips was incorporated
  • In 1768 a squadron of the disbanded Hussar Regiment Emerich Esterházy was incorporated.
  • 1769 in that year the regiment received the master lists no.34 within the cavalry .
  • In 1798 the 3rd Major Division was transferred to the 7th Hussar Regiment .
  • 1849 New installation in Pardubitz
  • In 1860 a squadron was assembled from the 4th Division, which was to be disbanded, and handed over to the Volunteer Hussar Regiment No. 2
Colonel Joseph Simonyi

Supplementary districts

Peace garrisons

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Regimental owner

The regimental owner
  • 1733 Colonel Nicolaus Graf Hávor (Hávor Hussar Regiment)
  • 1744 Field Marshal Lieutenant Joseph Freiherr Dessewffy (Dessewffy Hussar Regiment)
  • 1768 Major General Ferdinand Graf Ujházy (Hussar Regiment Ujházy)
  • 1762 Kálnoky Hussar Regiment
  • 1773 Field Marshal Lieutenant Martin Freiherr von Graeven (Graeven Hussar Regiment)
  • 1791 Field Marshal Lieutenant Siegbert Freiherr Vécsey von Hajnácskeö (Hussar Regiment "Vécsey")
  • 1798 Change of name, from now on Hussar Regiment "Vécsey" No. 4
  • 1803 Lieutenant Field Marshal Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Homburg
  • 1820 General of the cavalry Friedrich VI. Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
  • 1829 Field Marshal Lieutenant Leopold Freiherr von Geramb
  • 1839 Grand Duke Alexander Czesarewitsch of Russia
  • 1849 General of the cavalry Franz Graf Schlik zu Bassano and Weisskirchen
  • 1862 Lieutenant Field Marshal Victor Cseh von Szent-Kátolna
  • 1867 General of the cavalry Leopold Freiherr von Edelsheim-Gyulai
  • 1893 Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Battle calendar

War of the Polish Succession

  • 1734: Immediately after the formation, the five existing companies moved to Italy and took part in the skirmish at Quistello, the Battle of Parma , the Battle of Guastalla and the battle of Revere
  • 1735: renewed battle at Revere and S. Michele, skirmish at Sabbionetta

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1742: two squadrons were the army in Bavaria stopped and took part in the Battle of Mainburg part
  • 1743: the two companies returned to Italy, the regiment fought in the Battle of Camposanto
  • 1744: March to Naples , attack on Velletri
  • 1745: Battle of Hohenfriedberg
  • 1746: The regiment fought with distinction in the Battle of Piacenzza. Fight in Provence .
  • 1747: Securing the siege troops of Genoa , battle near Campofreddo

Seven Years War

War of the Bavarian Succession

  • 1778: The regiment stood with the main army in Bohemia and stood out, together with the Uhlan Regiment No. 6 in the battle near Libochowitz .

Russo-Austrian Turkish War

  • 1786: When the main army retreated from Lazu-Mare to Fenis, parts of the regiment stopped the advancing Turks and fought near Armenis and Uj-Palánka. The remaining 4 squadrons fought in Croatia near Dubica and Novi.
  • 1789: Parts of the regiment under Colonel Poutet were involved in the siege of Berbir in Croatia, later six squadrons were deployed to the siege of Belgrade . The rest of the unit was at Semendria during this time
  • 1790: a squadron was sent to Serbia for patrol duty.

→ coalition wars

  • 1793: Six squadrons were relocated to the Rhine , the remaining four remained in Western Galicia
  • 1794: The squadrons ordered to the Rhine took part in battles near Schifferstadt , Schwengenheim, Eppstein and Kaiserslautern .
  • 1795: Fights on the Hartberge ( Hartenberg ) near Mainz , near Landstuhl and Kaiserslautern
  • 1796: Deployment to the Lower Rhine Army. Participation in battles near Wallhausen-Neukirchen, near Wetzlar and Burgebrach. The regiment fought near Sulzbach , Amberg and Würzburg , divisions took part in battles near Aschaffenburg and Gießen .
  • 1797 Six squadrons fought in battle near Cambach ( Limburg )
  • 1799: Battles near Ostrach , Stockach and Schaffhausen . A squadron excelled in defending Wehr . The hussars were involved in the capture of Mannheim and fought at Neckarshausen and Philippsburg
  • 1800: Skirmishes in southern Germany. At Landshut four squadrons covered the retreat of the infantry. In the battle near Neumarkt , two squadrons escaped the enemy's grip.
  • 1805: the regiment belonged to the Merveldt am Inn corps and led rearguard battles after the battle of Amstetten , Krems an der Donau and Schöngraben. Participation in the Battle of Austerlitz .
  • 1809: As part of the II Corps in Germany. Battle at Landshut. Then relocation to Upper Austria with battles near Gallnenkirchen and Urfahr- Linz . Then seconded to the main army with skirmishes near Wagram and Znojmo

Russian campaign

  • 1812: As part of the auxiliary corps under Prince Schwarzenberg , detachments fought at Kartuszkaya-Bereza, Kobrin and Sielo-Welykoye, two squadrons fought at the Moskona.

Wars of Liberation

  • 1813: Seconded to the main Bohemian army. Patrol service in the area around Dresden. Participation in the battle of Kulm , individual patrol corps fought at Tilisch and Dolma. Participation in the Battle of Nations near Leipzig . Persecution battles and crossing over the Rhine. Battle at Colmar .
  • 1814: Fighting of individual departments at Troyes and Moret ( Arrondissement Fontainebleau ) and at Bourg-en-Bresse. In the battles off Lyons the regiment swam across the raging Rhone and was thus able to cause great confusion in the rear of the enemy.

Reign of the Hundred Days

  • 1815: Forays into France. Smaller skirmishes at Dannemarie and Belfort
Hussars of the Hungarian revolutionary government (so-called Kossuth Hussars) "fouraging" in Slovakia

Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848: First used to suppress the Vienna uprising , the regiment was relocated to Hungary and used by the secession government in Budapest on the occasion of the Hungarian revolt against the imperial troops and their allies.

German war

First World War

During the First World War, the hussars were exposed to a wide variety of uses. At first they fought as cavalry in the regimental unit, but were also used as infantry in all theaters of war.

After Hungary was proclaimed as an independent state in October 1918, the soldiers of Hungarian descent were called on by the interim government to stop the fighting and return home. As a rule, this request was followed. Thus the association was withdrawn from its previous high command, the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, and could not be demobilized by the latter and, at best, theoretically dissolved. It is currently not known whether, when and where such a dissolution took place.

Uniform until 1916

structure

In the Austro-Hungarian cavalry, a regiment usually consisted of three to four (in exceptional cases more) divisions. (A division was used here to refer to a battalion-strength unit. The correct division was called an infantry or cavalry division.) Each division had three squadrons , each of which consisted of two companies . The number of riders in the individual sub-units fluctuated, but was usually around 80 riders per company.

The individual divisions were named after their formal leaders:

  • the 1st division was the colonel division
  • the 2nd division was the lieutenant colonel (lieutenant colonel) division
  • the 3rd division was the majors division
  • the 4th division (if any) was the 2nd majors division

In the course of the army reform, the cavalry regiments, which at that time consisted of three divisions, were reduced to two divisions from 1860 onwards.

Until 1798, the regiments were named after their respective owners (who did not also have to be the commanders). There was no binding regulation of the spelling. (e.g. Count Serbelloni regiment - or Serbelloni regiment.) With each change of ownership, the regiment concerned changed its name. After 1798, the numbered designation prevailed, which could possibly be linked to the name of the owner. Due to this constant renaming, the regimental histories of the Austro-Hungarian cavalry are very difficult to follow. In addition, there is the constant and apparently arbitrary, sometimes multiple reclassification of the associations. (For example: Kuk Bohemian Dragoon Regiment "Prince of Windisch-Graetz" No. 14 )

All honorary names of the regiments were deleted without replacement in 1915, without this being enforced in reality, since according to the orders of the military administration, all existing letterheads and stamps had to be used up first.

literature

  • Alphons von Wrede: History of the KuK Wehrmacht from 1618 to the end of the XIX century Vienna 1898–1905.
  • Georg Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
  • BM Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999.
  • Allmayer-Beck , Lessing : The K. (below) K. Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann, Munich et al. 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Announcement of the Quartermaster's Department" of the Army Group Command FM. Archduke Eugen / Q.Op. No. 665/15. Issued by the field post office 512